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Photoshop Tools
Photoshop CS6
Tools Panel Introduction
When you start Photoshop, the Tools panel appears at the left of the screen. Some tools in
the Tools panel have options that appear in the context-sensitive options bar. You can expand
some tools to show hidden tools beneath them. A small triangle at the lower right of the tool icon
signals the presence of hidden tools.

Tools Panel Overview

Selection Tools Gallery

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The marquee tools

make rectangular,
elliptical, single row,
and single column
selections.

The Move tool

moves selections,
layers, and guides.

The Magic Wand

tool selects similarly
colored areas.

Crop and slice tools gallery

The lasso tools

make freehand,
polygonal (straightedged), and
magnetic (snap-to)
selections.

The Quick Selection

tool lets you
quickly paint a
selection using an
adjustable round
brush tip

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The Crop tool trims images.

The Slice tool creates slices.

The Slice Select tool

selects slices.

Retouching tools gallery

The Spot Healing

Brush tool removes
blemishes and
objects

The Healing Brush

tool paints with a
sample or pattern to
repair imperfections
in a image.

The Patch tool

repairs imperfections
in a selected area
of an image using a
sample or pattern.

The Red Eye tool

removes the red
reflection caused by
a flash.

The Clone Stamp

tool paints with a
sample of an image.

The Pattern Stamp

tool paints with part
of an image as a
pattern.

The Eraser tool

erases pixels and
restores parts of an
image to a previously
saved state.

The Background
Eraser tool
erases areas to
transparency by
dragging.

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The Magic Eraser

tool erases solidcolored areas to
transparency with a
single click.

The Blur tool blurs

hard edges in an
image.

The Sharpen tool

sharpens soft edges
in an image.

The Dodge tool

lightens areas in an
image.

The Burn tool

darkens areas in an
image.

The Sponge tool

changes the color
saturation of an area.

Painting tools gallery

The Smudge tool

smudges data in an
image.

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The Brush tool

paints brush strokes.

The Pencil tool

paints hard-edged
strokes.

The Color
Replacement tool
replaces a selected
color with a new
color.

The Mixer Brush

tool Simulates
realistic painting
techniques such as
blending canvas
colors and varying
paint wetness.

The History Brush

tool paints a copy
of the selected state
or snapshot into
the current image
window.

The Art History

brush tool paints with
stylized strokes that
simulate the look of
different paint styles,
using a selected state
or snapshot.

The gradient tools

create straightline, radial, angle,
reflected, and
diamond blends
between colors.

The Paint Bucket

tool fills similarly
colored areas with the
foreground color.

Drawing and type tools gallery

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The path selection

tools make shape or
segment selections
showing anchor
points, direction lines,
and direction points.

The type tools create The type mask tools

type on an image.
create a selection in
the shape of type.

The shape tools

and Line tool draw
shapes and lines in
a normal layer or a
shape layer.

The Custom
Shape tool makes
customized shapes
selected from a
custom shape list.

Navigation, notes, and measuring tools gallery

The pen tools let you

draw smooth-edged
paths.

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The Hand tool moves The Rotate View

tool non-destructively
an image within its
rotates the canvas.
window.

The Zoom tool

magnifies and
reduces the view of
an image.

The Note tool makes

notes that can be
attached to an image.

The Eyedropper tool

samples colors in an
image.

The Ruler tool

measures distances,
locations, and angles.

The Count tool

counts objects in an
image. (Photoshop
Extended only)

The Color Sampler

tool displays color
values for up to four
areas.

3D tools gallery (Photoshop Extended)

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The 3D Object
Rotate tool rotates
the object around its
x-axis.

The 3D Object Roll

tool rotates the
object around its zaxis.

The 3D Object
Pan tool pans the
object in the x or y
direction.

The 3D Object Slide

tool moves the object
laterally when you
drag horizontally, or
forward and back
when you drag
vertically.

The 3D Object Scale

tool scales the object
larger or smaller.

The 3D Rotate
Camera tool orbits
the camera in the x
or y direction.

The 3D Roll
Camera tool rotates
the camera around
the z-axis.

The 3D Pan Camera

tool pans the camera
in the x or y direction.

The 3D Walk
Camera tool moves
laterally when you
drag horizontally, or
forward and back

The 3D Zoom
Camera tool
changes the field of
view closer or farther
away.

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when you drag

vertically.

Other Resources:

http://tinyurl.com/photoshop-cs6-tools

Sources:
Adobe Help